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Eva’s Byte #473 – Late Bloomers
Just as there are late-summer blooming flowers such as the black-eyed Susan, cone flower, daylily, sunflower, and aster—to mention some-there are late-blooming writers.
Annie Proulx, whose first novel, Postcards, won the Faulkner award, started writing at the age of 57.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose most notable work is the children’s book series, The Little House on the Prairie, got started at the age of 65.
Raymond Chandler published The Big Sleep, his hardboiled detective fiction, at the age of 50.
Frank McCourt wrote Angela’s Ashes, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in his early 60s.
In the capacity of a writer, I wrote and published my first novel in the genre of Contemporary Women’s Fiction, at the age of 57, five years after retiring from a teaching career.
At this point in time I’m at the tail end of drafting chapter 58 (499 words thus far) in my current Contemporary work in progress.
*It’s never too late to come into bloom.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
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Annie Proulx, whose first novel, Postcards, won the Faulkner award, started writing at the age of 57.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose most notable work is the children’s book series, The Little House on the Prairie, got started at the age of 65.
Raymond Chandler published The Big Sleep, his hardboiled detective fiction, at the age of 50.
Frank McCourt wrote Angela’s Ashes, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in his early 60s.
In the capacity of a writer, I wrote and published my first novel in the genre of Contemporary Women’s Fiction, at the age of 57, five years after retiring from a teaching career.
At this point in time I’m at the tail end of drafting chapter 58 (499 words thus far) in my current Contemporary work in progress.
*It’s never too late to come into bloom.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
Eva’s Byte #491 – Convictions
Not the only writer whose hard drive retains incriminating evidence of macabre research data, I’m in the same camp with those authors who strive to write fiction with conviction.
Why, most authors wouldn’t even harm a fly!
Operative word, “most”.
Some have been convicted of murder.
With Halloween coming around the bend, my morbid curiosity behooved me to research such truths stranger than fiction.
Lo and behold!
Having no intention of glorifying criminals who’ve crossed the line onto non-fictitious territory, I’ll merely gloss over the murder warranting a conviction for which they’ve served time:
At the age of sixteen, bludgeoning a friend’s mother to death with a rock.
Accidentally shooting and killing a spouse in a drunken prank.
Shooting and killing a classmate, then cannibalizing the remains.
Foretold in the title of the author’s book, murdering a spouse.
Killing it in the capacity of a writer, I’ve crossed the fictitious finish line for the draft of chapter 3 (950 words). I’ve begun puttering around drafting chapter 4.
*May literary crime pay for those of us who write fiction with murderous content.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
Why, most authors wouldn’t even harm a fly!
Operative word, “most”.
Some have been convicted of murder.
With Halloween coming around the bend, my morbid curiosity behooved me to research such truths stranger than fiction.
Lo and behold!
Having no intention of glorifying criminals who’ve crossed the line onto non-fictitious territory, I’ll merely gloss over the murder warranting a conviction for which they’ve served time:
At the age of sixteen, bludgeoning a friend’s mother to death with a rock.
Accidentally shooting and killing a spouse in a drunken prank.
Shooting and killing a classmate, then cannibalizing the remains.
Foretold in the title of the author’s book, murdering a spouse.
Killing it in the capacity of a writer, I’ve crossed the fictitious finish line for the draft of chapter 3 (950 words). I’ve begun puttering around drafting chapter 4.
*May literary crime pay for those of us who write fiction with murderous content.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
